Created through the vision of the pedagogues of the period, this endeavor not only provided formal education to village students, but offered non-formal education to their…

The panel titled “To Carry Stones with Tonguç: Village Institutes and İsmail Hakkı Tonguç on the 52nd Anniversary of his Death” was held on…

On Thursday 24 May Chamber Talks moderator Haydar Ergülen discussed the poetry of  İstanbul The program included examples of outstanding poems written on İstanbul and its…

The Renovation of Casa d’Italia, Tepebaşı As of 1919, the Italian government had begun to use the former Venetian Palace (Palazzo Venezia) and thus,…

Nazimî Yaver Yenal (1904-1987), a unique personality of 20th-century Turkish architecture, is a typical representative of the early Republic generation that epitomized idealist principles.…

The Republic stepped beyond the threshold of the “old life” in which the ruler and the ruled were utterly estranged and constituted two opposite…

As of the early 19th century, , during the final period of the Ottoman Empire, sports –unlike all else in the country– spread from the…

An individual that speaks with his own voice and not the voice of others. An individual that cast asides the crutches and stands tall,…

*This post is compiled from Prof. Dr. Cânâ Bilsel’s articles in the From the Capital of the Empire to the Modern City of the Republic:…

One of the most outstanding riches of the lands we stand on is the history and cultural heritage left to us by the Byzantine…